Planspot Aims To Take The Pain Out Of Event Marketing

Following a soft launch in its native Netherlands back in October, Planspot -- described as an all-in-one event marketing tool -- is seeing its official International push today, including the U.S., now that it has the needed media partnerships in place. Competing with the likes of London-based Evently, and indirectly, HootSuite, Sproutsocial and Mailchimp, the web app's dashboard hooks into social media, Press Release distribution, mailing list management, and partner publisher and event-listing websites to take the pain out of event marketing and promotion online.

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Holly Madison: How Will She Lose the Baby Weight?

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North Korea reportedly cuts 3G for tourists, restricts access to long term visitors

It was just a month ago that North Korea started allowing mobile internet access to visitors (while still restricting it from citizens), but now a tour group says that program has ended. First reported by North Korea Tech, a post on the Koryo Group site indicates that tourists can still purchase SIM cards for international calling, but internet access is not available, a return to its policy from January. A recent blog post from the 22nd goes into more detail, explaining that 3G Koryolink access for foreigners "has been restricted to long term visitors/residents of Pyongyang only." With no word from the government on the policy change you'll have to insert your own reasoning, although we'll imagine Eric Schmidt is not pleased.

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Energy surcharge by hotels in the VI?? - USVI Moving Center

It's becoming more and more popular. I have been seeing $30 per day at a wide range of resorts throughout the Caribbean, not just in the VI.

From a timing perspective, it became much more attractive for Hotels to feel like they could get away with these fees when the arilines started in earnest with the ala carte fees for bags, choosing seats, etc. on top of the rates.

Personally as a consumer, I would prefer these businesses just give me one figure, with all taxes, "Resort Fees", "Energy Fees", etc. when I make a reservation. Who do they think they're fooling? Is the general public that stupid???

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Comcast readies Xfinity Watchathon Week for March 25th, will give customers all-access to premium TV series

Well, well, it looks as if Comcast has planned something relatively major for Xfinity TV subscribers. The company just announced that from March 25th through March 31st, it's set to give customers an all-access viewing ticket to a plethora of TV series from various networks, which will also include on-demand content for those with the proper All Video On Demand credentials. Thanks to the Xfinity Watchathon Week, as it's formally known, folks with an Xfinity TV account can have the chance to check out shows from networks they may not be subscribed to, including ones such as HBO, Showtime and Stars, as well as others like A&E, AMC and BBC America -- so yes, you can catch up on (or watch for the first time) Mad Men, The Walking Dead, Downton Abbey, The Sopranos and, of course, Girls (!). There are still quite a few days to go until Comcast's Watchathon kicks off, so, perhaps, now might be the perfect time to set a cal reminder and start stacking up on some popcorn.

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Little League raffles AR-15 rifle to raise money

An armory employee shows off the AR-15. (WAND-TV)

A youth baseball league in Illinois is raffling off an AR-15 military-style assault weapon to raise money for its kids.

The Atwood-Hammond little league partnered with the local armory for the raffle, which launched on Tuesday. "It has been going gangbusters," Charidy Butcher, co-owner of the Atwood Armory, told RawStory.com. ?My phone has been ringing nonstop since 4:30 this morning. It?s just been crazy."

Butcher said she's received calls from people as far away as Washington state wanting to enter the June 29 drawing. A ticket costs $20.

"It?s for a good cause, for the kids, and we?re just trying to raise as much money as we can," she said. "Their fundraiser last year only raised $10.?

The winner of the rifle?a Rock River Arms AR-15?will have to go through a standard background check, Butcher added. The rifle is similar to the one used in the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

According to Atwood-Hammond commissioner Steven McClain, the league is in desperate need of new equipment. "When you don't have enough stuff to even practice with, it's hard to run a team," McClain told WAND-TV.

It's not the first gun fundraiser for the Atwood Armory. Earlier this month, the shop raised more than $7,000 for a cancer charity with a similar raffle.

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Determining the Return on Investment for Home Improvements

Have you ever been asked by a client, ?How much will a home improvement or remodeling project add to the value of my home??

Determining the return on such an investment can be challenging, given the many variables that go into its calculation. The cost of labor, expenses for materials, and depreciation over time are just a few of the factors that have to be considered.

Though this is a daunting task for the homeowner, MiRealSource members have access to a terrific, easy-to-use tool that allows you to answer that very question ? in just minutes!

Every MiRealSource member has access to RPR, a Web-based program developed by the National Association of REALTORS^? that provides several tools for REALTORS^? to use to help them accurately determine a home?s value. The Home Improvement Calculator is one of those tools.

Once you open any property in RPR, one of your options will be to open the ?Refined Value? tab.

The screen will refresh and you will see the ?Refined Value? page, which contains four different ways to pinpoint the most accurate price for a given property.

The tool we want you to focus on is the 2nd one on the page,
?Refine the Value Based on Any Home Improvements.?

When you click to open the ?Add a Home Improvement? menu, you have a choice of any of the pre-selected projects, or you have the option to add your own by selecting ?Other? at the bottom of the list. ?(See diagram on next page.)

Within seconds the tool will calculate the value change from the home improvements, which is then added to the estimated valuation of the property.

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altman waiter: Culture, education, language, and thinking ...

How we think about problems depends in part of how we are taught to do so. And that education is seeped in our culture and language. Metaphors, mnemonics, analogies, riddles, word choice for explanations are tightly interwoven into our language. Just like it was probably impossible for Romans to invent calculus given their numeral system, it is difficult to think clearly about some problems in some languages. I?ve learned advanced physics and mathematics in English and find it very difficult to express thoughts in those domains in Russian (my native language). But when I first came to New York, I marveled at how poor my cohorts? geometry proofs were ? their presentations took a lot of space and too many steps to achieve what I was taught to do in minimal configuration. I was taught to jump and bound from concept to concept (in geometry), while the students in America were taught to crawl through ideas. I found that maddening! But it was a different math language, and as such it allowed for a different set of affordances?

It is difficult to easily show the differences in thought process that language makes in this short blog. But here?s a bit on difference in thoughts that culture and background knowledge makes ? these are analogies taken from high school students? writing. Notice the strong anchor of time and place. Enjoy!

• Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
• His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
• He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
  guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
• She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
• She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
• Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
• He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
• The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife?s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
• The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn?t.
• McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
• From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, unreal quality, like when you?re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
• Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
• The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
• Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
• They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan?s teeth.
• John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
• He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
• Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
• Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
• The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
• The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
• He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
• The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
• It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
• He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
• Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.

PS: I?ve been collecting these types of analogies for years. Unfortunately, I no longer have the reference for the one above.

Tags: affordances, education, Language, problem solving

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Home Sales Sag As Foreclosures Fall, But Prices Jump ? CBS Detroit

FARMINGTON HILLS ? The number of home sales in southeast Michigan sagged in February ? due to far fewer foreclosure sales ? but home prices surged, according to figures released Monday by the Farmington Hills real estate research firm Realcomp II Ltd.

Total home and condominium sales in February in the 10-county region were 4,442, down 7.3 percent from 4,793 a year earlier. But the median sale price jumped 34.5 percnet to $80,000 from $59,500 a year earlier.

The price increases were led by Oakland County, up 47 percent, and Wayne County, up 40.6 percent.

The number of homes for sale in the region fell 23.4 percent to 20,421 homes, from 26,670 homes a year earlier. And the median amount of time a home was on the market before its sale continued to fall, from 91 days a year ago to 84 days now.

The number of foreclosure sales across the region tumbled 28.2 percent from 2,297 a year ago to 1,650 this year. The number of non-foreclosure sales rose 11.9 percent from 2,496 a year ago to 2,792 this year.

By county and city submarkets, sales results were as follows:

City of Detroit: 279 foreclosure sales, down 18.7 percent from 343 a year earlier. 122 non-foreclosure sales, up 24.5 percent from 98 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $9,000, up 13.2 percent from $7,951 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $15,000, up 23.3 percent from $12,175 a year earlier.

Dearborn/Dearborn Heights: 39 foreclosure sales, down 50.6 percent from 79 a year earlier. 122 non-foreclosure sales, up 24.5 percent from 98 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $45,833, up 27.7 percent from $35,900 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $62,750, up 8.2 percent from $58,000 a year earlier.

Genesee County: 162 foreclosure sales, 32.2 percnet from 239 a year earlier. 188 non-foreclosure sales, up 3.3 percent from 182 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $20,750, down 13.5 percnet from $24,001 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $74,750, up 6 percent from $70,500 a year earlier.

Grosse Pointes: 17 foreclosure sales, up 54.5 percent from 11 a year earlier. 27 non-foreclosure sales, down 3.6 percent from 28 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $103,050, up 20.5 percent from $85,500 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $214,000, up 10.9 percent from $193,000 a year earlier.

Huron County: No foreclosure sales, down 100 percent from one a year earlier. 10 non-foreclosure sales, up 42.9 percent from seven a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $86,500, up 16.6 percnet from $74,200 a year earlier.

Lapeer County: 28 foreclosure sales, down 28.2 percent from 39 a year earlier. 32 non-foreclosure sales, down 3 percent from 33 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $81,105, up 41.1 percent from $57,500 a year earlier. Median sales price on non-foreclosure sales, $110,000, down 15.5 percnet from $130,158 a year earlier.

Livingston County: 58 foreclosure sales, down 7.9 percent from 63 a year earlier. 127 non-foreclosure sales, up 27 percent from 100 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $130,100, up 50.4 percent from $86,500 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $174,900, up 4.3 percnet from $167,750 a year earlier.

Macomb County:?271 foreclosure sales, down 27.3 percent from 373 a year earlier. 515 non-foreclosure sales, up 14.4 percetn from 450 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $58,000, up 41.5 percent from $48,000 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $97,000, up 11.8 percent from $86,750 a year earlier.

Oakland County: 303 foreclosure sales, down 38.2 percent from 490 a year earlier. 807 non-foreclosure sales, up 12.6 percent from 717 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $75,500, up 21.8 percent from $62,000 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $165,000, up 35.2 percent from $122,000 a year earlier.

Sanilac County: Three foreclosure sales, down 76.9 percent from 13 a year earlier. Two non-foreclosure sales, down 66.7 percent from six a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $85,146, up 209.6 percent from $27,500 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $106,200, down 0.7 percent from $107,000 a year earlier.

St. Clair County: 44 foreclosure sales, down 18.5 percent from 54 a year earlier. 39 non-foreclosure sales, down 15.2 percent from 46 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $43,805, down 8.6 percent from $47,925 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $100,000, up 0.1 percent from $99,950 a year earlier.

Tuscola County: 10 foreclosure sales, up 400 percent from two a year earlier. 10 non-foreclosure sales, up 11.1 percent from nine a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $22,130, down 42.5 percent from $38,500 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $68,498, up 82.7 percnet from $37,500 a year earlier.

Wayne County, except Detroit: 383 foreclosure sales, down 32.3 percent from 566 a year earlier. 680 non-foreclosure sales, up 16 percent from 586 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $24,000, up 14.3 percent from $21,000 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $83,000, up 18.6 percent from $70,000 a year earlier.

Source: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/03/11/home-sales-sag-as-foreclosures-fall-but-prices-jump/

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